It’s obviously something about your great engineering school, combined with the resources and encouragement to start building and creating stuff while you’re still in school, that positions À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ founders so well to be starting companies," says AlexisÌýOhanian, co-founder ofÌýreddit, author and startup investor.
Alexis OhanianÌýwas on campus November 22 to talk to UÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ students about his entrepreneurial experience and to promote his new bookÌý. ÌýÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering had a chance to get Alexis' opinion on how the education here supports the development of successful entrepreneurs.
Alexis Ohanian on À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineers:Ìý“[À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ] is no longer the best-kept secret. I think it was a secret maybe five years ago, and then we started noticing that the applications that were coming into from À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ were just on a different level. It's not even fair now because the reputation precedes every single one of these graduates. It's just a factory for entrepreneurial engineers, and it's amazing.
AlexisÌýOhanianÌýhas investedÌýin more than 90 startups includingÌýThalmicÌýLabs,Ìýformer resident of theÌý.Ìý
ThalmicÌýLabs makesÌýtheÌýMYOÌýgesture control band. Founders Stephen Lake, Matthew Bailey andÌýAaron GrantÌýare graduates of theÌýMechatronicsÌýEngineering program at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.